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27 May 2019, 01:50
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While the Official Guide explanations will often justify eliminating an incorrect answer because it's "awkward", we never want to do this. Something that sounds awkward to you may sound fine to someone else, and many OA's are pretty darned awkward-sounding. Honestly, there's some lazy writing in the OG explanations -- and for whatever it's worth, those explanations are NOT written by the same people who produced the questions themselves.
Anyway, here's the relevant portion of (A) again: "the body’s response to sunburn is more localized and resulting in a distinct line dividing affected and unaffected areas of the skin." "And" must connect like forms. And while it's not unprecedented for a "verb-ed" and a "verb-ing" modifier to be parallel, in this case, the construction seems to convey that the sunburn is "more localized" and the sunburn is "more resulting". That's nonsense.
So (A) isn't wrong because it's awkward - it's wrong because it creates an illogical meaning.
I hope that helps!
10 Jun 2020, 03:10
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I also noticed the issue of "resulting" but I thought the "has" in D was a greater problem.
(D) in which widespread swelling and stiffness immobilize the injured area until it has healed, the body’s more localized response to sunburn results
For eg., Fry the onions until they turn pink
NOT Fry the onions until they have turned pink.
04 Mar 2021, 06:04
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RiseAndShinee
Hi RiseAndShinee
Here are my few cents. Let experts reply and confirm the query.
until as indictor is also mentioned. If you notice carefully, "has " fits perfectly as two actions are one after another.
Without until , there is no need to add "has" as the action sequence is understood.
I have seen some gmat questions where action indicator is present but adding has/had is not considered wrong. Infact adding has/had makes sequence more clear.
In Summary, adding "has" in this scenario is not a major error . Even heals or has healed is reversed still A won't be the right answer because of other major flaws in it.
During my practice sessions in SC , I have learnt that wrong answer mostly have multiple errors. We need to look for major flaws. Sometimes we need to compromise minor ones ( grey areas such as pronoun errors) over major ones ( SV agreement etc.)
Hope it is clear.
